AUSTRALIA's summer of discontent got the punchline it was asking for last night when a depleted bowling attack was ripped apart by Caribbean flair at the Gabba.

Australia lost their fifth successive Twenty20 international when the world champion West Indian team roared to 6-191 then kept an Australian team featuring three debutants to 8-164 for a 27 run victory.

It was the first time in cricket history two Australian teams competed on the one day with the regulars Mitchell Starc, Dave Warner, Matt Wade, and Shane Watson unavailable due to commitments with Australia's Test squad in India where Australia completed the second day of a warm-up match.

Australia's understrength team was rattled by the sustained fury of the West Indian challenge which gave the tourists their first win in any form of the game against Australia on our shores since the Perth Test of 1997.

The smallish crowd of 19,562 was treated to a lavish dose of old fashioned, unshackled West Indian flair but it was a forgettable match for Australia on a night when it led with its chin and duly copped one flush on it.

Many people left the ground in the dying overs, several fans jeered and one yelled "at least we know one team not on performance enhancing drugs" as the Australian innings collapsed.

The tourists were far from flawless but their desperation was evident, as revealed by one chase which had three fielders scooting flat out beside each other to reel in an Adam Voges drive.

The West Indies may have been walloped 5-0 in the 50 over series but they play this format better because they can forget about the clutches and handbrakes needed in the 50 over format and simply trust their cavalier instincts.

Australia needed a springloaded start to be any chance and Voges, who could score runs with a carrot he is in such good form, proividing it with a rousing 51 off 32 balls.

But he and Shaun Marsh fell to runouts in quick succession with Australia's innings was ruptured beyond repair.

Few players in Australia have vastly upgraded their reputation this season but James Faulkner is one of them.

Suddenly finding himself among the most experienced members of a greenhorned attack, Faulkner's creative mixture of back of the hand slower balls and changes of pace befuddled the West Indies and his 3-28 off four was an accurate reflection of the quality of his bowling.

He bowled one slower ball too many to Darren Sammy (20 of seven) and got smacked into the second tier of the northern stand with such force that it was a surprise the stand did not topple over into Vulture St.

Johnson Charles followed his maiden international hundred with a brisk half century, milking the attack when he had the chance and walloping seven fours and a six when they strayed into his pet zones.

The 88-run partnership between Charles and Darren Bravo set the West Indies up for a commanding total.

West Indian suprstar Chris Gayle failed again, following his three single figure scores in the 50 over competition and a miserable Big Bash with an eventful eight in which he hit a mighty six and was dropped before falling to an excellent catch to Nathan Coulter-Nile at mid-on.

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